Mu'taz Rasul

Mu'taz Rasul (1969-16 September 2014) was a leader of Hamas in Iraq.

Biography
Mu'taz Rasul was born in Yarmuk in Palestine in 1969, but was forced to flee the country after his family was implicated in terrorist attacks against Israel. Rasul became a member of Hamas in Iraq and took part in armed attacks in Israel during the Iran-Iraq War, assisting Saddam Hussein as his proxy.

In 2014, Rasul took part in the Iraq Crisis offensives of the Islamic State and their allies. Rasul fought in a gun battle with Kurdish forces at the Haditha Dam near Mosul, where he was mortally wounded by a grenade. He was then finished off with AK-47 fire.